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Jews were being shot in the streets and in public places, even in their own homes.(pg.9) My reaction to this is that it's so amazing how one day everything is fine and the next your life is being taken away for being something you beleive in. It didnt matter who you were or what yor status was if you were jew you were considered dead and if you were alive you were shooy any where every where no matter what.

//Celia's Response: This was one of the quotes I wrote down on my worksheet. What really sickens me that in the context this sentence wasn't stressed. There's no exclamation point or any indication really of being surprised by this. People are being shot in PUBLIC PLACES! What if somebody shot a fellow student in front of Antrim House. The whole school would be appalled. In the Holocaust though, it had already become part of daily life.

William adds: We think this is so horrible, but in some countries, atrocities like this are happening right now. As// //Celia said, we would be appalled, and want action if it were here in the U.S. Yet we want out of Iraq and Afghanistan and do not want to get involved anywhere else. If anything comparable to the holocaust happened here, anyone with any sanity would do whatever it takes to stop it. But many are not willing to help the people of other countries. Does America need a Pearl Harbor for every genocide to actually do something? I am not saying invasion is always the answer, but America in general gets way too comfortable over here to see the needs of others.

"In any case he couldn't have written you down, you were running too fast..." -yossi I picked this quote because it show that even in the roughest most horrible times they never lost who they were and kept there humor in them. Plus it also shows that when a event comes were it is either death or life even if you dont have the strength or power to do it people somehow overcome that and prevail that also goes for the whole holcaust in general not just this event.

The desire to live was so strong that even in their weakest state, they could muster up the ability to run to stay alive, to avoid selection. They wanted to live. M. Fegan//